Some Suggested PRT Materials (to get you started)… LEVEL I: • Bubbles and Balloons (maybe the balloon pump too!) • Squishy toys • Sound puzzles (farm animals, vehicles) and books • Crocodile Dentist • Busy Ball Popper or Ball Maze • Turn and Learn Magnetic Gears • Rainbow Maker (aka-Rain Stick) • Little People Animal Sound Farm • Light spinner and Spinning tops • Echo microphone • Other cause and effect toys • *Food • *Swinging, bouncing, and other motor activities *NOTE. Take into consideration student’s individual dietary and sensory needs. LEVEL II (IN ADDITION TO ITEMS MENTIONED AT LEVEL I): • Farm set, Train set and/or Cars with track or garage • Matching and simple Bingo games • Magnetic dress-up set dolls • Don’t Spill The Beans and/or Don’t Break the Ice • Hungry Hungry Hippos • Lucky Ducks Game • Mr. Potato Head • Marbulous Marble Run • Elefun • Playdough with tools • Barnyard Bingo (aka-Old MacDonald Preschool Game) LEVEL III (IN ADDITION TO ITEMS MENTIONED AT LEVEL I AND II): • Dress up, Doctor, Play food/kitchen/grocery • Building sets (K’nex, Lincoln Logs, Legos, etc.) • The Lady Bug game • Snails Pace Game • Memory Games • Connect Four • Hi Ho Cheerio • Chutes and Ladders and/or Candy Land Remember: To keep your student’s attention, and his/her motivation strong, switch out toys in your PRT area every week or two. Keep some items the same, but rotate in new ones. © STAR Autism Support 2020 www.starautismsupport.com 21 Suggestions for Challenging Toys Cause and Effect Toys Ex. Winnie the Pooh Spinner, Jack-in-the-box • Put a Kleenex on top or something light that when the toy pops it will fly up • Add a puppet or other character or stuffed toy into the play – it can activate toy or playfully block the buttons, etc. • Have a puppet/character sit on the toy (if it pops up) • Build a tunnel over the toy so that when it pops up the tunnel will crash • Feed the pop-up toy • Play hide-n-seek with the toy (put it under a blanket or around the classroom or under something heavy) • Put shaving cream on the toy or other sensory experience • Push or activate toy with different body parts • Be silly, try to use the toy the wrong way…. Upside down,etc. • Use a squirt bottle to clean the toy • Talk about close/open or in/out • Add student’s pictures to the characters that pop up • For Jack-in-the-box, when the toy pops up you could feed it or play peek-a-boo with the toy inside (it pretends to cover its eyes, or waves hi) • Use verbal routines like ready, set, go or 3,2,1 blast off! Sensory Toys Ex. Marble toy, Rain stick • Play hide-n-seek with toy and look for it. • Put toy into another container to request open, or hide in other sensory materials like beans • Play peek-a-boo • Shake to make noise and add in other instruments or music • If it is round pretend to drive like it is a steering wheel. (What shape is the toy? What else could it be or what does it look like or have the same shape as?) • Pretend it is a hat and sneeze it off or have it fall off • Roll back and forth • Ring Toss • Make a face • Use with water or bubbles • Play stop/go games and use verbal routines, 1,2,3.. go! etc. • Bring in puppets to pretend to eat the toys or just playfully obstruct © STAR Autism Support 2020 www.starautismsupport.com 22 Some Suggested Games Cookin’ Cookies Shark Attack • Fun and simple game, students • Motorized game--the shark get a recipe card then use the head rotates around the board, spoons that have suction cups “eating” anything in its path. on them to grab a cookie and Players race to move their try to find the ingredients they playing pieces around the board need that are on the back of before the shark gets them. each cookie. Pop-up Pirate Spot It • Similar to 5 Monkeys and • More of an advanced game but Don’t Wake Daddy, you put in each card has multiple “I spy” the swords in the barrel and items and one item on every 2 eventually the pirate pops up. cards will match. This game is easy to use with students of all levels. Bring in puppets to pretend to eat the toys or just playfully obstruct Diggity Dog • The Diggity Dog Game gets Level 2/3 PRT Suggested Games kids to help the puppies find • Matching or Memory Games • Old MacDonald Pop-n-match their bones. Press on the • Bingo games • The Lady Bug game electronic barking dog and he • Don’t Spill The Beans and/or • Snail’s Pace Game will bark the number of spaces Don’t Break the Ice • Connect Four you move- 1, 2, or 3. When your • Hungry Hungry Hippos • Hi Ho Cheerio puppy lands on a space beside • Lucky Ducks Game • Chutes and Ladders and/or a bone, he can pick it up using • Elefun Candy Land his magnetic nose. Game can • Barnyard Bingo (aka-Old be modified so you just work on MacDonald Preschool Game) matching colors by taking turns • Don’t Wake Daddy or 5 Little to pick up bones. Monkeys © STAR Autism Support 2020 www.starautismsupport.com 23.